Kentucky Section of the Mathematical Association of America
Bellarmine University – March 30-31, 2012

SATURDAY
8:00 – 11:00 / Registration / Refreshments/Book Sales Ist Floor of Horrigan Hall
8:00 – 11:15 / Origami Exhibit (Horrigan 108)
HORRIGAN 102 / HORRIGAN 103 / HORRIGAN 104 / HORRIGAN 105 / HORRIGAN 106 / HORRIGAN 107
8:00 – 8:15 / Samantha McKean(u), Luke Yap(u), Daniel Dilger(u), Bruce Kessler(f)
WKU
The Ricky McCormick Murder Notes I: Background and Initial Attempts at Decoding the Notes / Nathan Gambrell (u)
NKU
Construction of a Kid Krypto Algorithm / Jorge Chang (u)
Morehead State U
Kentucky Rook: How to Win / Ryan Walls (g)
Murray State U
A Binary Integer Programming Model for the Optimal Location of Fire Stations: A Case Study of Murray, KY / Ghan Bhatt (f)
Tennessee State U
Finite Frames in Application
8:20 – 8:35 / Luke Yap(u), Daniel Dilger(u), Samantha McKean(u), Bruce Kessler(f)
WKU
The Ricky McCormick Murder Notes II: Background and Initial Attempts at Decoding the Notes / Tyler Clark (g)
WKU
Continued Radicals and Cantor Sets / Tarah Cole (u)
NKU
Assessment of Risk Factors for Truancy of Children in Grades K-12 Using Survival Analysis / Zac Bettersworth (u)
Georgetown College
Space Time Approach to Rafting Trip / James Little (u) & Jennifer Birriel (f)
Morehead State U
Long-Term Monitoring of Night-Time Sky Brightness in Morehead KY / Andy Martin (f)
Kentucky State U
Inconsummate Numbers
8:40-8:55 / Daniel Dilger(u), Samantha McKean(u), Luke Yap(u), Bruce Kessler(f)
WKU
The Ricky McCormick Murder Notes III: Background and Initial Attempts at Decoding the Notes / David Coulliette (f)
Asbury U
Rate-Limited Sorption Modeling in Contaminant Transport / Alex McAllister (f)
Centre College
Mathematics and Drama in Ancient Greece / Tony Bankemper (u)
NKU
Binary Disruption in Embedded Clusters / Elizabeth Krantz (g)
WKU
Sharpening the Boundaries of the Sequential Probability Ratio Test / Michael McCord (u)
Morehead State U
Upper Bounds on Crossing Numbers of Knots in Radius 2 Hextile Knot Mosaics
9:10 –10:00 / 2010 Distinguished Teaching Award Address
Christie Perry (Morehead State University)
“The Kentucky Core Academic Standards: Opportunity and Challenge”
(Amy Cralle Theatre in Wyatt Hall)
10:00- 10:25 / Elections
Amy Cralle Theatre in Wyatt Hall
HORRIGAN 103 / HORRIGAN 104 / HORRIGAN 105 / HORRIGAN 106 / HORRIGAN 107
10:30 –10:45 / William Holbrook II (u)
Morehead State U
Approaching the n+k-Queens Problem Through Composition of Solutions / April York (u)
Transylvania U
Digit After Digit of Divisibility?: Generating Sequences of Composite Numbers / Russell Brown (f)
UK
Central Kentucky Mathematics Circles / Zachariah Casey (u)
NKU
Darboux Springs / Lan Nguyen (f)
WKU
Taylor Series of Solutions of Differential Equations
10:50 –11:05 / Cyrus Hettle (u) & Robert Schneider (u)
UK
Al-Jabar: A Mathematical Game of Strategy I / Ronnie Howard (u)
Morehead State U
Statistical Mechanics and Knot Mosaics / Daniel Curtin (f)
NKU
The History of the KYMAA / Beth Bradley (f)
U of L
Using a 3D Finite Volume for the Pressure Gradient Force in Atmospheric Models / Scott Brabon (u), Rebecca Gaul (u), Laura Hochstetler (u)
Asbury University
Whatever Floats Your Boat
11:10 –11:25 / Cyrus Hettle (u) & Robert Schneider (u)
UK
Al-Jabar: A Mathematical Game of Strategy II / Anne Raymond (f), Bill Fenton (f) & Mike Ackerman (f)
Bellarmine U
A Mathematics Capstone Course / Robin Blankenship (f)
Morehead State U
Understanding ≠ Remembering / Matias von Bell (u), David Musser (u), Laura Smith (u)
Asbury University
Leaf it to Math / ryiah Loper (home school student)
Wilmore
Unit Origami and its Geometry
11:40 – 12:40 / Invited Address
Robert Devaney (Boston University) “The Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set”
(Amy Cralle Theatre in Wyatt Hall)
12:45 – 1:45 / Luncheon and Business Meeting
University Dining Hall Ground Floor of Communications Building
1:45 / KYMAA Executive Committee Meeting